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hand scraper
A professional who scrapes metal workpieces with handtools to smooth machine ways, surface plates, and bearing surfaces to ensure free action of parts. Responsibilities include:
- Positions workpiece on worktable, in vise, or in fixture, and secures it with clamps and wrenches.
- Files and grinds burrs from workpiece.
- Applies pigment to surface plate with brush, cloth, or sponge.
- Positions workpiece and surface plate against each other, rubs one surface against other to determine high spots.
- Selects hand scraper and scrapes workpiece surface to remove high spots indicated by pigment pattern.
- Repeats operation until pigment pattern is even over work surface.
- May inspect workpiece for conformity to specifications, using such instruments as dial indicator, height gauge, master, surface plate, and gauge blocks.
- May use powered hand scraper.
- May polish and buff steel articles, using portable polisher or buffing brush.
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